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The Weapons Storage Area (WSA) at the outskirts of Mather Air Force Base (AFB) in Rancho Cordova, California was the munitions storage facility for the United States Air Force, 320th Bombardment Wing.
This facility was built for the secure storage and maintenance of the nuclear and conventional weapons for the B-52 Stratofortress bombers, which were stationed at Mather and were always ready in case of attack by the USSR during the Cold War. The WSA was to supply these bombers with nuclear weapons in a matter of minutes.
On December 5, 1977 a breach of operational security took place at the Mather WSA, in which a reported for Atlanta based Cox Newspapers was able to gain access to the facility by posing as a fencing contractor and examine the safety and security measures in place, talk with security personnel about their roles and responsibilities in case of an attack on the facility and observe and photograph the facility, including entry controls and weapon storage areas. The reporter was also able to obtain blueprints of the WSA.
Later, a series of articles about the Air Force's lack of security were published in the Washington Star newspaper as well as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, much to the consternation of Air Force commanders.
The WSA was controlled and guarded by the 320th Security Police Squadron from February 1, 1963 until September 30, 1989. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the thawing of Cold War hostilities, this facility was decommissioned and abandoned.
Today, the WSA area belongs to the County of Sacramento, the bunkers are shuttered and much of the facility has been destroyed by time and vandalism.
Even with this condition, this facility still serves as a reminder of the Cold War and the readiness of our military to respond with nuclear offensive capability during those tense times.
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Scanned and cleaned by Melora of historyofhyrule.com from the Japanese artbook, Hyrule Historia (Now published in multiple languages)
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 17th of December 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
OK, it's just in a Legal Journal's "Fiction Edition" (legal fiction?), but it's still pretty cool. Unfortunately, the printing process did a number on the photo itself. It looks better here than in reality, since I did some post processing.
the book was just published in the winter of 2009, and it showcases an amazing and beautiful technique that uses needle felting but applies the process to fabric, so wool is applied to the cloth using a felting needle.
the effect is stunning, like embroidery or even sometimes similar to painting on fabric.
the colors and textures are very rich, and projects have a great variety that is sure to inspire. the contrast of bright wool felted onto natural linen is a repeating feeling that always looks great.
the projects and scenes created in the book included detailed diagrams that show to how to recreate them, including fine details about colors and shades of wool that are combined to create depth.
written directions are in japanese, but the diagrams, and very clear step by step instructions with photos show how to create this effect. it's probably easier is you have had a little experience needle felting, just so you understand how that tool works, but that being said, you will be able to pick this up quickly, especially if you have some experience with felt, or embroidery, or even sewing
Exhibition Fundraiser Print Set
16 × 2 Sided A6 Prints
1 × A3 Poster (Folded)
1 × 16pp A6 Comic
1 × 'Stealth Emitter' Patch
1 × Black Box Zine (1st 50 Copies)
Laser Cut Packaging
Edition of 500
Printed in the UK
Published 2016
Available from Landfill Editions
Bain News Service,, publisher.
White House at night, 6/11
6/11 (date created or published later by Bain)
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.09352
Call Number: LC-B2- 2216-5
Line engraving by Richard Godfrey, 1st July 1773. Published in F. Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, 1776 (PR/744). THIS PRINT IS FOR SALE. The prints can be posted to you in a tube or flat packed and mounted ready for you to frame. Prices range from £20 for a mounted print in A3 size, to £10 for an A4 size mounted print and £5 for an A5 size print. These pictures would make an ideal present and would be a fascinating and attractive addition to any home. Please contact us: Tel. 01244 532364 or e-mail: archives@flintshire.gov.uk for more details.
Llin-engrafiad gan Richard Godfrey, 1 Gorffennaf 1773. Cyhoeddwyd yn F. Grose, The Antiquities of England and Wales, 1776. (PR/744)
Yes I took this a few min. Ago! The 48 year old me and the artwork I soon will publish here…
My teeth are bright yellow these days!!!
Peace and Noise!
MushroomBrain the face of an artist maniac
1987 Emmy Awards
NOTE: Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post any of my photos, but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can. Thanks.
Scanned from the original 35MM film negative.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 3rd of November 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
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Il 6 aprile 2016 gli Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, la rivelazione swing americana già fenomeno di Youtube grazie alla cover di Miley Cyrus “We can’t stop”, saranno in concerto in Italia all’Alcatraz di Milano, per l’unica tappa italiana del tour.
Un fenomeno ormai mondiale, con 200 Milioni di visualizzazioni su Youtube e 1 Milione di iscritti al canale.
Un tour che parte nel 2015 dagli Stati Uniti passando per l’Asia ed approdando in Europa nel 2016 con oltre 80 date confermate. Immaginate canzoni di Beyoncé, Britney Spears or Taylor Swift riportate indietro di 70-80 anni…
Gli Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (o PMJ, come ormai vengono chiamati in tutto il mondo) sono una mini-big band swing a tutti gli effetti, ma con qualcosa in più: uniscono il perfetto stile “d’epoca” ai brani moderni di Beyoncé, Britney Spears, White Stripes o Taylor Swift rielaborandoli come se fossero arrangiati per Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland o Nina Simone. I PMJ colmano il divario tra le generazioni, suonando melodie a tutti familiari con arrangiamenti che intrigano tutte le età.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 23rd of September 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Hello!
New country published: Bolivia
www.lifetour.net/destinations/bolivia
Year visited: 2015
Enjoy!
Fabio Tabbo’
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I don't think I have published this one in Flickr before. If I have, and you find it, please message me. In the meantime I want it in only one group "PANO-Vision" so please don't invite to others. Thanks!
[Copyright L. C. Knee, Wheeling, W. Va.; Published by the Photo Crafters, Wheeling, W. Va., no date]
- from the postcard collection of the Ohio County Public Library Archives
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First of all I am sorry for not uploading recently but my flickr was all messed but yahoo has fixed it know so I am back! Anyway I was published again this time with my toad shot this time in Digital SLR magazine!
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Quidam
Quidam ha debuttato sotto il tendone ad aprile 1996 a Montreal. Da allora, la produzione ha visitato cinque continenti ed ha emozionato milioni di persone. Nel dicembre 2010, Quidam ha intrapreso un nuovo viaggio, presentare la stessa entusiasmante produzione nei palazzetti, partendo dal Nord America. Il cast internazionale comprende 45 acrobati, musicisti, cantanti e artisti di prima classe.
La giovane Zoé è annoiata; i suoi genitori, distanti e apatici, la ignorano. La sua vita ha perso qualsiasi significato. Cercando di riempire il vuoto della sua esistenza, scivola in un mondo immaginario - il mondo di Quidam - dove incontra dei personaggi che la incoraggiano a liberare la sua anima.
Cirque du Soleil
Dai circa 20 artisti di strada di cui la compagnia era formata al suo inizio nel 1984, il Cirque du Soleil, basato in Quebec, è oggi la società leader nel settore dell’entertainment. Il gruppo conta 4.000 lavoratori, di cui oltre 1.200 artisti di oltre 50 nazionalità diverse.
Cast
The cast of Quidam has over 50 acrobats, musicians, singers, and characters, some of which are detailed below.
Zoé: She is the principal character in Quidam. Although average in nature, she longs for excitement.
Father: Completely, though unwittingly, self-absorbed. His white shoes are the only indication of a hidden personality.
Mother: Conveys an air of absence and alienation. Inside her lie fear, frustration, and desire.
Quidam: The show's titular character, who is anonymous, everyone, and no one. He may have stepped out of a surrealist painting or been conjured up out of Zoé's imagination.
John: Part game-show host and part substitute teacher who is the guide through the world of Quidam. Also is represented as a father figure to Zoé hence him stepping into her father's shoes.
Target: A living human bullseye fired at by everyone but is always smiling.
Chiennes Blanches: The silent chorus, the nameless and the faceless, the dehumanized, mechanical crowd, simultaneously leading and following. They also accompany the principal characters as they make their entrances and exits.
Boum-Boum: Enjoys screaming at the audience and walking away proudly, but will run away if an audience member screams back.
Rabbit: A minor character who chases and gets chased by other characters.
Aviator: A character who has skeletal wings who looks like he is not ready to take off.
Les Égarés: Lost individuals who gather together in the streets and abandoned buildings of Quidam. They perform in the banquine act.
Acts
Quidam combines a mix of acrobatic skills and traditional circus acts.
German Wheel: An acrobat performs tricks within a German wheel.
Diabolo: A performer manipulates diabolos (i.e., Chinese yo-yo), which are two sticks linked by a string on which a wooden spool balances.
Aerial contortion in silk: Intensity, power and grace combine when a young woman becomes one with the column of red fabric which supports and cradles her.
Skipping ropes: Drawing inspiration from dance, acrobatics, and the art of manipulation, a group of 20 acrobats performs this familiar child's game in a steady stream of solo, duo, and group jumps and figures.
Aerial hoops: Two performers use hoops attached to the ceiling to perform tricks.
Handbalancing: Using strength and balance, a performer contorts into poses while on balancing canes.
Spanish webs: Artists fly over the stage, attached to trolleys on the overhead tracks. In turn or as a group, they occasionally perform a sudden drop, stopped only by the ropes looped around their waists or ankles.
Statue: Never losing contact, two strong, flexible performers move almost imperceptibly, assuming positions impossible without an impeccable sense of balance.
Banquine: An Italian acrobatic tradition going back to the Middle Ages that combines gymnastics and ballet. Showcasing the agility of the human body, up to 15 artists perform sequences of feats and human pyramids with their perfectly synchronized movements.
Juggling: Up to five balls fly through the air, with additional manipulation of a briefcase, umbrella, and bowler hat.
American postcard by Disney Enterprises / Pixar Animation Studios, 2005. Image: Pixar Animation Studios. Concept art by J. Otto Seibold for Monsters, Inc. (Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich, 2001). From 'The Art of Pixar: 100 Collectible Postcards, published by Chronicle Books.
After exploring the worlds of toys and bugs in the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman, 2001) became the fourth major film by Pixar Animation Studios. The computer-animated comedy centers on two monsters, James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and his one-eyed partner and best friend Mike Wazowski. They are employed at the energy-producing factory Monsters, Inc., which generates power by scaring human children. However, the monster world believes that the children are toxic, and when one sneaks into the factory, that child must be returned home before it is too late. Monsters, Inc. was released by Walt Disney Pictures.
The story of Monsters, Inc. (Peter Docter, Lee Unkrich, David Silverman, 2001) begins in a city of monsters with no humans called Monstropolis. Central to this world is the Monsters and Co. factory, where energy is generated to keep everything in the monster world running. This energy is obtained from the cries of fear of children. The employees of the factory aim to scare children in order to collect these fear cries. To do this, they travel to children's bedrooms through special doors. The monsters themselves regard this work as very dangerous, as they believe that children are a danger to them. Therefore, any contact with children is avoided as much as possible. A special unit, the Child Detection Agency (CDA), keeps a strict watch on all doors. However, things are not going well for the company because many children nowadays are not so easily frightened. The CEO of Monsters and Co., Henry J. Waternoose, has more and more trouble keeping the factory running. The best employee of the company is a lovable, confident, tough, furry blue behemoth-like giant monster named James P. Sullivan (better known as Sulley). One day a little girl accidentally follows him into the monster world. Before he can send her back, the door to her room is returned to the storeroom. Sulley is now forced to keep her hidden. He does this with the help of his wisecracking best friend and colleague, short, green cyclops monster Mike Wazowski. The two soon discover that all the stories about children being poisonous are false. The two give the girl the name "Boo", and try to find a way to send her back home. Until then, they disguise her as a monster.
Monsters, Inc. marks the first Pixar feature to not be directed by Lasseter instead being helmed by Docter, as well as Lee Unkrich and David Silverman who served as co-directors. It was Pete Docter's debut. The film was executive produced by John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton. The idea for Monsters, Inc. was conceived in a lunch in 1994 attended by Lasseter, Docter, Stanton, and Joe Ranft during the production of Toy Story. One of the ideas that came out of the brainstorming session was a film about monsters. Docter began developing the film in 1996 and wrote the story with Jill Culton, Jeff Pidgeon, and Ralph Eggleston. Stanton wrote the screenplay with screenwriter Daniel Gerson. The characters went through many incarnations over the film's five-year production process. The technical team and animators found new ways to simulate fur and cloth realistically for the film. Randy Newman, who composed the music for Pixar's three prior films, returned to compose for its fourth. Upon its release, Monsters, Inc. received critical acclaim. At AllMovie, Derek Armstrtong wrote: "Even with a pastel universe of computer tricks at their disposal, the story is what really pushes a Pixar movie over the top -- what made the Toy Story movies so grand, and what left A Bug's Life short of greatness. Monsters, Inc. may burst at the seams with visual stimulants, but it's the delightful premise, fleshed out through a superior script, that helped scare up one of the largest opening weekends ever, paving the way for a monster-sized hit." The film grossed over $577 million worldwide and became the third highest-grossing film of 2001. The film won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for 'If I Didn't Have You' and was nominated for the first Best Animated Feature, but lost to DreamWorks' Shrek, and was also nominated for Best Original Score and Best Sound Editing. Monsters, Inc. saw a 3D re-release in theaters in 2012. A prequel titled Monsters University, which was directed by Dan Scanlon was released in 2013. A television series/sequel titled Monsters at Work premiered on Disney+ in, 2021. No monsters were harmed in the making of this motion picture.
Sources: Derek Armstrong (AllMovie), Karl Williams (AllMovie), Wikipedia (Dutch and English), and IMDb.
December will be Pixar month st EFSP! In the coming weeks, Bob, Truus & Jan Too! will share our collection of Pixar postcards with you at Flickr.
The Postcard
A postally unused Smart Novels Series postcard published prior to 1918. The photography was by the Dover Street Studios.
Mrs. Grundy
Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety. A tendency to be overly fearful of what others might think is sometimes referred to as Grundyism.
Mrs Grundy originated as an unseen character in Thomas Morton's 1798 play 'Speed the Plough'.
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson (16th. January 1853 – 6th. November 1937) was an English actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era and one of the finest actors of his time, despite his dislike of the job and his lifelong belief that he was temperamentally unsuited to acting.
-- Forbes-Robertson's Early Years
Born in London, he was the eldest of the eleven children of John Forbes-Robertson, a theatre critic and journalist from Aberdeen, and his wife Frances.
One of his sisters, Frances (1866–1956), and three of his brothers, Ian Forbes-Robertson (1859–1936), Norman Forbes-Robertson (1858–1932) and John Kelt (Eric Forbes-Robertson) (1865–1935), also became actors.
He was educated at Charterhouse. Originally intending to become an artist, he trained for three years at the Royal Academy. He began a theatrical career out of a desire to be self-supporting, when the dramatist William Gorman Wills, who had seen him in private theatricals, offered him a role in his play 'Mary Queen of Scots'.
His many performances led him into, among other things, travel to the U.S., and work with Sir Henry Irving. He was hailed as one of the most individual and refined of English actors. He was a personal friend of the Duke of Sutherland and his family, and often stayed with them at Trentham Hall; he is known to have recommended to them various writers and musicians in dire need of assistance.
Forbes-Robertson first came to prominence playing second leads to Henry Irving before making his mark in the role of Hamlet. One of his early successes was in W. S. Gilbert's 'Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith'.
In 1882, he starred with Lottie Venne and Marion Terry in G. W. Godfrey's comedy 'The Parvenu' at the Court Theatre. George Bernard Shaw wrote the part of Caesar in 'Caesar and Cleopatra' for him. Shaw stated:
"I wrote 'Caesar and Cleopatra' for Forbes-Robertson,
because he is the classic actor of our day, and had
a right to require such a service from me.
Forbes-Robertson is the only actor I know who can
find out the feeling of a speech from its cadence.
His art meets the dramatist’s art directly, picking it
up for completion and expression without
explanations or imitations … Without him 'Caesar
and Cleopatra' would not have been written".
Forbes-Robertson's other notable roles were Romeo, Othello, Leontes in 'The Winter's Tale', and the leading role in 'The Passing of the Third Floor Back'; performed on Broadway in 1908.
-- Forbes-Robertson's Later Years
He did not play Hamlet until he was 44 years old, but after his success in the part he continued playing it until 1916, including a surviving silent film (1913). In a theatre review of Forbes-Robertson’s performance in Hamlet published in The Saturday Review (2nd. October 1897) George Bernard Shaw wrote:
"Nothing half so charming has been seen
by this generation. It will bear seeing again
and again. … His intellect is the organ of his
passion.
His eternal self-criticism is alive and thrilling
as it can possibly be. … Mr. Forbes-Robertson’s
own performance has a continuous charm,
interest and variety, which are the result not
only of his well-known grace and
accomplishment as an actor, but of a genuine
delight — the rarest thing on our stage —
in Shakespeare’s art, and a natural familiarity
with the plane of his imagination".
Forbes-Robertson was also a talented painter who did a portrait of his mentor Samuel Phelps that currently hangs in the Garrick Club in London.
Forbes-Robertson acted in plays with the actress Mary Anderson in the 1880's. He became smitten with her, and asked her hand in marriage. She kindly turned him down, though they remained friends. Later he and actress Beatrice Campbell enjoyed a brief affair during the time she starred with him in a series of Shakespearean plays in the mid-1890's.
In 1900, at the age of 47, he married American-born actress Gertrude Elliott (1874–1950), sister of Maxine Elliott, with whom he had four daughters. Their first daughter was Maxine Forbes-Robertson known as 'Blossom', who married the aircraft designer F. G. Miles and became a director and designer of the Miles Aircraft company.
Their second daughter Jean Forbes-Robertson became an accomplished actress. Their third daughter was Chloe Forbes-Robertson (1909–1947), an artist.
Diana Forbes-Robertson (1914–1988), their fourth daughter, was a writer who later wrote a biography of her aunt Maxine Elliott.
Johnston Forbes-Robertson was knighted in 1913 at the age of 60, at which point he retired briefly from acting.
He returned to the stage, however, for his first farewell tour of the US in 1914–1915. It began in with a three month run in New York, then traveled the country using eight rail road freight cars to carry the sets, costumes and properties for eight shows. There were also two passenger cars for the actors and personnel. His last appearance was at the Sanders Theatre in Boston with a performance of Hamlet.
A second farewell tour followed; it traveled to 122 towns, beginning in Detroit in October 1915, with four plays. The tour traveled to Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco — where he learned of the birth of his fourth daughter, Diana.
At this point they decided to reduce the itinerary to only three plays, by eliminating 'Caesar and Cleopatra' from the repertoire. In his autobiography he describes how, on one early morning, the set, including the sphinx, was piled onto a beach and set on fire.
The tour continued into Canada. His last performance as both Hamlet and as an actor, was in 1916 at the Sheldon Lecture Theatre of the University of Harvard, the stage of which had been made to replicate the stage of the Elizabethan Fortune Theatre especially for the Forbes-Robertson’s performance.
His literary works include The Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (actor and theatre manager) as well as his own autobiography A Player Under Three Reigns (1925).
-- Forbes-Robertson's Death
On the 6th. November 1937 Forbes-Robertson died at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover, Kent, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, London on the 9th. November. Memorial services were held in St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London.
A statue of Forbes-Robertson by Brenda Putnam (1932) can be found at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C.
Miss Gertrude Elliott
Gertrude Elliott (December 14th. 1874 — December 24th. 1950), later Lady Forbes-Robertson, was an American stage actress, part of an extended family of theatre professionals including her husband, Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, and her elder sister, Maxine Elliott.
-- Gertrude Elliott - The Early Years
May Gertrude Dermott was born in Rockland, Maine, a daughter of Thomas and Adelaide Hall Dermott. Her father was a sea captain born in Ireland, and her mother had been a schoolteacher.
Her older sister Maxine left the household for New York City at 16, and Gertrude soon followed. Both of them began using the surname "Elliott" as young women.
-- The Career of Gertrude Elliott
Elliott's career on stage began in 1894, with a role in Oscar Wilde's 'A Woman of No Importance', in a company that was touring New York state.
Both Elliotts joined a company in San Francisco that toured Australia in 1896. The company was run by Nat C. Goodwin, an actor who soon married Maxine Elliott.
Their company went to London in 1899, and the next year Gertrude was hired into the company of Johnston Forbes-Robertson; Gertrude Elliott and Forbes-Robertson married at the end of 1900, and continued to work together for much of their careers. She was, literally, Ophelia to his Hamlet, Desdemona to his Othello, and Cleopatra to his Caesar.
Away from the stage, Gertrude Elliott starred with her husband in a silent film version of Hamlet in 1913, directed by their friend J. H. Ryley. She also appeared in a 1917 silent film, Masks and Faces.
Gertrude Elliott was a co-founder and president of the Actresses' Franchise League.
-- Gertrude Elliott and the Great War
During the Great War Gertrude managed the "Shakespeare Hut" in Bloomsbury, a project of the YMCA for entertaining and raising morale among war workers. In 1923, New Zealand gave Gertrude Elliott an award for her work for ANZAC troops during the war.
-- Personal life of Gertrude Elliott
Gertrude Elliott married English actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson in 1900. They had four daughters, including aircraft designer Maxine (Blossom) Miles, writer Diana Forbes-Robertson, and actress Jean Forbes-Robertson.
Johnston was knighted in 1913, making Gertrude "Lady Forbes-Robertson" from that time. She was widowed when her husband died in 1937, and Gertrude died in 1950, aged 76 years. Her grandchildren include actress Joanna Van Gyseghem.
There is a plaque marking the birthplace of the Elliott sisters in the Trackside Station in Rockland, Maine.
OK call me stupid, but i am happy to got my pictures published!
A photobook 'about the Dutch - by the Dutch', and out of the 4000 entries they picked 4 out of 4 entries of mine. And on the cover even!
Ti Lung and his wife Tao Ming-min arrive at the party. -- PHOTO: APPLE DAILY
Lin Ching-hsia's sweet 60: a star-studded bash with flowers, champagne and multiple dress changes
Published on Nov 4, 2014 4:23 PM
Hong Kong - Once a movie queen, always a movie queen. Lin Ching-hsia celebrated her 60th birthday in a pink gown and a tiara, holding court at a party attended by other beautiful people at The Peninsula Hong Kong on Monday.
Flowers formed a backdrop at the event planned by the former actress' stepdaughter, Claudine Ying, who is in the early education business and whom Lin raised after she married billionaire Michael Ying, said Ming Pao Daily News.
Celebrity couple Carina Lau and Tony Leung Chiu Wai were among the guests who arrived at about 7pm - empty-handed. Leung said: "Sister Ching-hsia said no gifts, so we've come to congratulate her."
Former actress Cherie Chung attended the gathering, as well as casino heiress Pansy Ho, singer-turned-jeweller Cally Kwong, movie producer Nansun Shi, Mandopop legend Liu Chia-chang, actor Ti Lung and his wife, former actress Tao Ming-min.
Lin greeted her guests in a green gown, then changed into something more regal for the party proper, said Ming Pao.
The former actress, who has turned her hand to writing, is publishing a second book, Cloud To Cloud, which includes reminiscences of her late friends Teresa Teng and Leslie Cheung. Lin shared some parts of her book with her guests on Monday, said Ming Pao.
Twenty years after she married Ying and quit acting, she remains a highly visible presence in Hong Kong gossip pages. Besides Claudine - Ying's daughter with his former wife, fashion designer Flora Cheong-Leen - Lin has raised two girls of her own.
There has been tabloid talk of cracks in Lin's marriage, and newspapers said they did not see her husband arrive at the party. But Claudine later posted a photo of the couple at the banquet, raising their flutes of bubbly and flanked by their three daughters.
Today, Lin shared her thoughts on reaching her 60th birthday on Weibo, along with a photo of herself in a red gown at the party. She said she felt "complete". "I have all of you, friends who care about me; I have three well-behaved daughters; I have a good husband; they're always supporting and tolerating me silently," she wrote.
She said Cloud To Cloud was her birthday present to fans, a "significant" book in which she shares what she "sees, hears and thinks".
The Postcard
A Real Photograph Series postcard published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Art Publishers to Their Majesties the King and Queen.
The photograph shows Lily Brayton dressed as Viola for her performance in Twelfth Night.
The card was posted in Penzance on Friday the 17th. February 1905 to:
Miss L. Coon,
Trevenson Street,
Camborne.
The pencilled message on the back of the card was as follows:
"Dear L,
Thanks for pretty P.C.
Glad to say it is better.
Hope you are feeling
alright after your
holiday.
With love from
Lizzie".
Miss Lily Brayton
Elizabeth 'Lily' Brayton (23rd. June 1876 – 30th. April 1953) was an English actress and singer, known for her performances in Shakespeare plays, and for her nearly 2,000 performances in the First World War hit musical 'Chu Chin Chow'.
Lily Brayton - The Early Years
Brayton was born in Hindley, Lancashire, the fourth daughter of a Lancashire doctor.
Her first stage performance was in Manchester in 1896, when she was in the cast of a production of Shakespeare's 'King Richard II'. Lily joined the F. R. Benson company, and in 1898 she married Oscar Asche, a fellow member of it. Her sister Agnes Brayton (1878–1957) was another member of the same company.
In 1900 Brayton was chosen by Herbert Beerbohm Tree to create the part of Mariamne in his production of 'Herod'. In 1904 she and Asche formed their own theatrical company.
In 1906 she played Iseult in Joseph Comyns Carr's play 'Tristram and Iseult' at the Adelphi Theatre, with Asche as King Mark. Her sister Agnes also had a part in this production.
In 1907 Lily, as Katherine, and Agnes, as Bianca, appeared in the Oxford University Dramatic Society's production of 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
Lily Brayton - The Later Years
In 1907, Brayton became co-manager, with her husband, of His Majesty's Theatre, London, which was owned by Tree, in association with whom they managed a number of Shakespeare and other plays, including Laurence Binyon's Attila.
In 1909–1910, while Brayton and Asche were touring Australia, the Australian musician Wayne Jones composed a piece entitled "The Lily Brayton Valse". (Valse = Waltz)
In 1911 at the Garrick Theatre, Brayton starred with Asche in the play 'Kismet'. They toured Australia again in 1912–13, and also visited South Africa at the end of the tour in 1913. In 1914, she appeared as Marsinah in the silent film adaptation of Kismet.
The Asche hit musical comedy 'Chu Chin Chow' was staged in London in 1916. Brayton played the female lead character, Zahrat-al-Kulub. 'Chu Chin Chow' played until 1921, enjoying an unprecedented run of 2,238 performances, of which Brayton performed in nearly 2000, an endurance feat.
The majority of Brayton's performances, excepting 'Chu Chin Chow', were in Shakespeare plays. She also performed for several seasons at the Stratford Festival. Her last stage appearance was as Portia in 'Julius Caesar' in 1932, directed by Asche.
Asche became unstable and violent in his later years, and he and Brayton separated for a time, although she produced his 1928 play, 'The Good Old Days of England'.
There are three paintings of Brayton in the National Portrait Gallery, and many photographs exist showing her in costume.
Notable performances include:
- Herod, as Mariamne (1900)
- Richard II, as Queen Isabella (1900,1903,1910)
- Twelfth Night, as Viola (1901)
- The Prayer of the Sword, as Ilaria Visconti (1904)
- Darling of the Gods, as Yo-San (1904)
- Taming of the Shrew, as Katherine (1904,1907,1908,1914)
- Hamlet, as Ophelia (1905)
- Measure for Measure, as Isabella (1906)
- The Virgin Goddess, as Althea (1906)
- Tristram & Iseult, as Iseult (1906)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, as Helena (1906)
- Othello, as Desdemona (1907, 1909)
- Attila, as Ildico (1907)
- The Two Pins, as Elsa (1908)
- Merry Wives of Windsor, as Mistress Ford (1911)
- As You Like It, as Rosalind (1911)
- Kismet, as Marsinah (1914)
- Chu Chin Chow, as Zahrat-al-Kulub (1916–1921)
- Julius Caesar, as Portia (1932)
Death of Lily Brayton
After Asche's death in 1936, Brayton married Dr. Douglas Chalmers Watson and moved to Drem in East Lothian.
Following the death of her second husband, Lily moved to Dawlish in Devon where she died at the age of 76.
Lily was cremated, and her ashes buried in the grave of her first husband in the riverside cemetery near her former home in Bisham, Berkshire. She had no children.
Eric Crudgington Fernihough
So what else happened on the day that Lizzie posted the card>
Well, the 17th. February 1905 marked the birth of Eric Crudgington Fernihough. He was a British motorcycle racer.
In 1927, Fernihough made his only participation in the Isle of Man TT, finishing thirteenth in the 250 cc Lightweight TT.
In the first half of the 1930's, Eric took part in many international races for the Excelsior Motor Company. In April 1930 he won the North West 200 race in Northern Ireland in the 175 cc category.
In the Belgian Grand Prix of the same year, Fernihough finished second to the local rider Yvan Goor. In September 1930, he won the UMF Grand Prix in Pau, France.
In June 1931, Eric won his second UMF Grand Prix in the 175 cc category and with it the title of European Champion. That year he also won the Belgian Grand Prix and the 250 cc category races at the North West 200 and Swedish TT.
In 1935, riding a Brough Superior (T.E. Lawrence's favourite bike), Fernihough improved the lap record at the Brooklands circuit, one of the fastest tracks of the time, to 123.58 miles per hour (198.88 km/h).
In 1936, Fernihough set a new motorcycle land-speed record for solo motorcycles over the flying mile on a Brough Superior at a speed of 163.82 miles per hour (263.64 km/h). He also set a new record for sidecar motorcycles at 137 miles per hour (220 km/h).
Eric Fernihough's Fatal Accident
On 23 April 1938, Fernihough crashed while attempting to break the motorcycle land-speed record at Gyón, Hungary.
Update: image published on Universe Today here: bit.ly/xxsHcD
It seems to be an age since I was out with the telescope but we finally had a clear night this weekend, albeit one with a high waxing crescent. Despite the moon's interference I tried managed to capture some detail in the Alnitak region. Sky glow did limit exposure to 120 seconds however . Even so I was surprised at how much information the 450D managed to capture through the small William Optics refractor but will still revisit this object if we get a clear moonless night before Orion bids us adieu for another year.
This is a shot of the area close to Alnitak, the left most of the three bright stars in the constellation of Orion The Hunter. Those three starts are often called "Orion's Belt" from which the "sword" of the incredible Orion Nebula hangs.
The Flame Nebula is an emission (and reflection?) nebula designated as NGC 2024 in the New General Catalog and is situated relatively close by at just over 1000 ly. It's quite large at 30 arc minutes in width and fairly bright due to the excitement of the gases in the cloud which causes ionised emmissions, the energy for which is provided by radiation from the nearby blue supergiant Alnitak (which is actually a trinary star system), otherwise known as Zeta Orionis. That said it's nowhere near as bright as it's cousin, the Greater Orion Nebula. The latter is clearly visible in the smallest of telescopes but I have never managed to see the Flame by visual observation. Notice a bunch of secondary nebula surrounding some of the other brighter stars in the image.
To the right we have another jewel of the sky, Barnard 33 - "The Horsehead Nebula". Bet you can see why it's called the Horsehead. It's situated in IC434 which is the red veil of nebuloity you can see moving diagonally down from Alnitak. The Horsehead is actually a "Dark Nebula", in essence a cloud of dust that is partially blocking our view of IC434. The cloud just happens to resemble that of a horse's head, producing a lovely and unusual effect. Another one I've never seen visually. Apparently one would require dark skies and a telescope in the region of 20 inches in aperture!!!! The Horsehead nebula is 86 light years from Earth
The shot of the Flame was made using an ASGT mounted William Optics Megrez 90FD 90mm refractor with a Canon 450D at prime focus. Subs were 120 secods a piece.
Stacked with Deep Sky Stacker. Post processing in Photoshop.
Three of my images have been published in a book about reed warblers, by Dr Karl Schulz-Hagen. If German scientific publications about the acrocephalus family of passerine birds become the next big thing, I'll be famous!
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 9th of December 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.